Monthly Archive: January 2002

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Turncoat Style

If you’re going to do a turncoat, do it in style. One Lord Peter Melchett, ex head of Greenpeace UK, has jumped ship to work for a corporate PR company, Burson-Marsteller. These are’nt just...

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Impressive Dubya

Dubya continues to impress. Attempting to defuse tensions between India and his newest peace-loving allies in Pakistan, he referred repeatedly to “Pakis“. This is a word roughly equivalent to nigger, dago, or wop. What...

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Ground Zero Lourdes

Here’s a horribly fascinating Breslin column about how Ground Zero at the old WTC site is becoming just another tawdry spiritual tourist site, ala Lourdes, with all the crappy associated knicknacks: All were looking...

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Larry Flynt, American Hero

It is indeed a sad and weird time when a pondslime like Larry Flynt is the only publisher fighting in the courts to secure and regain the traditional constitutional rights of journalists to report...

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A Moral Belle Moral

So I got this message from someone, complaining that my “moral stance” seemed untenable. This surprised me, because one thing I think I’ve never claimed is to be in any way moral. I am...

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Base! How Low Can You Go?

Guys are so weird sometimes. You have ones into multiply breasted women, horse women, robot women, lego porn stars, and plastic women. And something about inflatable things that are rarely even anthropomorphized. What’s going...

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Not A Hot Date

Using a locksmith, police opened the car to find the man’s body, spattered with candle wax and covered by a tablecloth in a wicker basket in the back seat of the vehicle. The woman’s...

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Electron Beam Fringe Benefits

Bummer, those high-intensity electron beam irradiators the USPS is zapping the mail with erase and damage camera memory cards, photo film, contact lenses, and so on. That’s it for a lot of mail-order businesses....

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Collective Punishment vs Individual Actors

Good op-ed here, illustrating the dangerous absurdity of conflating individuals’ actions with collective punishment against entire countries. Reminds me of how World War One stemmed from a single assasination of a royal guy by...